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Are you availing of services like Quantcast, Compete.com and Google Trends for Websites? How about Google Analytics, Quantcast, NuConomy, Woopra and Piwik? Which ones and why?

Given the number of tools available, primarily at no-charge, businesses have unprecedeted access to data about how much and from where their visitors come and what they look at or how long.

With all this good data, inventory management remains an issue. trend-spotting remains an issue: i want intel from all these sources, and maybe others, to help me figure out where I might be next week or next month.

There must be tools that do this – I’ve used at least two and created others for clients over the years.

Where are the inventory management tools? The sales projection tools? The seasonality and trend-spotting tools, available gratis or otherwise?

By the time the gov’t gets around to declaring a monopoly, or doing something about it, much damage has been done.

I joined IBM in 1994 – ~40 years into the “Consent Decree” – and it was Good for very few people at that point; most of them were lawyers and none of them were consumers.

Microsoft pre-DoJ was Bad for a lot of people. The folks around OS/2 among them. The folks around the BeOS were another (truly, deeply a shame). Netscape. Palm. Others that I saw the destruction up close and personal. I have no love for their business practices nor the majority of their technology.

Holding Microsoft back now at this point, in DoJ review sessions for Windows 7, is an awful idea benefiting no one. No one but lawyers.

It’s time to let them “innovate” w/r/t development. (<- I laughed only a little when writing that; there are a lot of smart people there, and Ray Ozzie to lead them.) The DoJ should keep eyes on the monopoloistic deals: don’t let them cut anti-competitive agreements with Dell, HP or anyone, but let them develop cool stuff technology-wise to keep Apple, Google and the hundreds of startups feeling the heat to keep ahead of them (*way* ahead).